* Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net>, 2008-01-06, 14:55:
I think that installing a source-level change list is hardly ever
useful for a binary package.
It's normally more useful that no changelog at all. :-)
What I tend to do in my packages is:
if user-level change list exists:
install it as /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE/changelog
elsif source-level changelog exists:
install it as /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE/changelog
else:
curl into a ball and cry
This sounds a bit like:
2. Modify policy to say that source-level changelogs should not be
installed unless there is some overriding reason. Also say that
user-level release notes should be installed as
/usr/share/doc/package/changelog.gz. This has the advantage that the
currently used name "changelog" is preserved, but the disadvantage
would be that it would take on a new meaning for many packages. It
would also create an inconsistent naming scheme compared to the
handling of changelog.Debian vs. NEWS.Debian.
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